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Introducer Sheath

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A thin plastic tube that sits in a blood vessel, with a tapered dilatorDY-lay-terAn instrument used to stretch or widen an opening, canal or passage in the body.Full entry inside it and a valved hub at the back end. A side tube with a stopcock comes off the hub.

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  • What it’s for

    Gives a doorway into an artery or vein so wires, catheters, balloon pumps, leads and stentstentA small tube, often of metal mesh, placed inside a vessel or duct to hold it open.Full entry graftGRAFTTissue or a man-made material moved into place in surgery to replace or repair a damaged part.Full entry can be passed in and out. The vessel is punctured with a needle, a guidewire goes in, a dilatorDY-lay-terAn instrument used to stretch or widen an opening, canal or passage in the body.Full entry enlarges the opening, and the sheathSHEETHA covering that wraps around a structure; in procedures, a short hollow tube left in a blood vessel to pass catheters through.Full entry with its dilator is advanced over the wire. The dilator is removed and the sheath stays in the vessel. Pulled for intra-aortic balloon pumps, endovascular aortic repair, device lead implants and lead extraction.

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  1. Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 32 (Cardiac Surgery), p. 924, 927
  2. commons.wikimedia.org

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